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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Toxicity',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="work">
	<p>
		When I changed my legal name, I had to fill out some paperwork at work.
		This paperwork asked for both my name and my address (among other things), so I had the chance to update my address in their records as well.
		Except ...
		They didn&apos;t actually read what I wrote.
		I provided my new address, but my pay cheques continued to display the address of my former residence.
	</p>
	<p>
		Today, my toxic shift leader was threatening to come to my apartment, which they only have a vague idea where is, while I slept.
		They said they&apos;d find me though.
		They were only joking, of course; they don&apos;t realise I&apos;ve been mad at them since they locked the toxic oven gases in the building with us, so they still try to play with me.
		I usually ignore it or brush it off, but this time, I poked back a little.
		I told them to get the address off my pay cheque next pay day if they&apos;re willing to wait that long.
		They didn&apos;t get it at first, and thought me foolish for giving them the idea, but I reiterated that they should make sure to look for me at the address on the cheque.
		Then it dawned on them; the address was inaccurate; they&apos;d never find me there (not that they were actually going to look).
		They alerted the head manager to the problem and said it needed to get fixed.
		I think on some level, this is what I wanted.
		My subconscious sort of tricked them into getting that address fixed for me.
		Why else would I have started joking with them again?
		Once this is fixed, I can escape.
		Or rather, I can be better prepared to escape.
		Once I find a new job, I won&apos;t have to worry about my W2 from this job being mailed to the wrong address.
	</p>
	<p>
		Later, the head manager was joking, trying to make it appear that the toxic shift leader was attacking me when they weren&apos;t.
		They replied that it was the head manager siding against me, not them, so I sided with the head manager and said it was the toxic shift leader that was trying to poison me.
		The head manager went along with that, unaware that I was actually somewhat serious.
		The toxic shift leader caught on that something was going on though, so they inquired as to what I was talking about.
		So I reminded them.
		In front of the head manager.
		They claimed to the head manager that we were whining that we couldn&apos;t breathe, so I reminded them that that wasn&apos;t the problem.
		I reminded them that the gases were giving me a headache and that they were causing the eyes of two other employees to feel like they were burning.
		(I only later found out the second employee&apos;s eyes were burning as well; I mentioned before that there was a third person complaining alongside the two of us, but that I wasn&apos;t aware of any short-term problems they were experiencing, but recently, I found out their problem.)
		The toxic shift leader had to explain what was going on in more detail, as I only stated the basics, and the head manager of course sided with me and said those doors needed to be open when the ventilation fans aren&apos;t working properly.
	</p>
	<p>
		As far as I can tell, no action has been or will be taken against the shift leader.
		However, it felt really good to get that off my chest.
		I think I&apos;m ready to forgive, though I will not forget and I&apos;ll likely never trust them.
		I noticed yesterday that their disregard for our safety is part of a bigger pattern.
		They disregard basic decency, and make our jobs harder just to make their own slightly easier.
		They don&apos;t care about us at all.
		In any case though, I think I&apos;m done giving them the cold shoulder.
		I thought I&apos;d hold a grudge a lot longer than this, but it&apos;s just too taxing.
		Like I said,t hey don&apos;t even care about us, so why would they even care if I don&apos;t joke with them?
		I don&apos;t think they&apos;ve even noticed that I&apos;d stopped.
		The only one I&apos;m even bothering is myself.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day was as follows:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I hadn&apos;t heard of <code>putc()</code>, so I looked it up.
			Are you talking about the <code>putc()</code> function in C++?
			From what I read, it may be implemented as a macro in some libraries, so it should never be used with expressions that should only be evaluated once, as those expressions will sometimes get evaluated multiple times.
			I don&apos;t really get why that is though.
			I&apos;m not sure why a call to a macro would be evaluated several times when a call to a function is evaluated once.
			What are your thoughts on this?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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